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Nearing touchdown on the transport sled, which allows us to move the sub from the hangar, foreground, to the launch position beneath the A-frame (rear). The sled utilizes a cog-railway type hydraulic drive to move over the steel tracks bolted to the ship's deck. (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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